Surrounded by a delegation of farm workers on Thursday, a staff member in Assemblyman Luis Alejo's office in Salinas calls Sacramento to reach him.

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D.L. Taylor
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A small cadre of farm workers and their supporters protested outside Assemblyman Luis Alejo's office Thursday after the Salinas Democrat failed to cast a vote on a bill that would have benefited the United Farm Workers in collective bargaining agreements with growers.

Those protestors were met with another troop of farm workers who turned out with signs blaring their support for the assemblyman. Alejo was in Sacramento on Thursday and spoke to protestors in his Salinas office on speaker phone.

"We are here to support Luis Alejo," said Lupe Sanchez of Salinas. "He has been our champion and ...